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It is common for students when reviewing medical inaccuracies in popular media to look at things such as Grey’s Anatomy, House M.D., or even the Good Doctor. For this assignment, I was curious to watch a show that doesn’t involve the U.S. I wanted to see the differences between the medical systems and also what is still considered medically inaccurate even in that country. The show I decided to focus on was Hospital Playlist which is a show that aired in South Korea. Netflix describes this show as “Every day is extraordinary for five doctors and their patients inside a hospital, where birth, death and everything in between coexists”. For this post, I only focused on the first episode because the first episode happened to be an hour and a half long and I didn’t feel like watching 28 hours of the show in one sitting.
Like all other medical dramas, this show is no different when it comes to being dramatic yet, not even 2 minutes in there was a medical emergency. A man had electrocuted himself and went into shock. A doctor (not on the clock) rushed to his side and said to call an ambulance and proceeded to ask him if he was okay and in pain. She checked his breathing as well as his pulse. She then proceeded to perform chest compressions once his heart had stopped. Once the EMTs had arrived on the scene she told them what had happened and what she had done until they arrived. To say the least, I was unbelievably shocked to see how accurate the show was as I was watching it. There was a scene where a doctor confronts residents after finding out that they prescribed the patient a fever reducer without having to have even seen her the night before. This as we all know is malpractice. Malpractice according to NCBI is defined as “Any act or omission by a physician during treatment of a patient that deviates from accepted norms of practice in the medical community and causes an injury to the patient”. The show didn’t go into specifics but, from the information given, we can assume that the fever reducer did cause her harm. All in all, what I saw was nothing but, good medical practice even if it was just a tv show.
Personally, I really enjoyed the show. I liked the characters within it and how each doctor had their own specialty and none of them really had much to do with each other past the fact that they were friends that went to medical school together. One of the doctors I really empathized a lot with mainly because whenever a patient of his died (he works in pediatrics) he would begin crying when he was alone and that really showed to me how much he cares for his patients. The doctors in this show acted truly as doctors and not as actors and from what I have seen by other medical tv shows this one felt the most accurate by far. I would highly recommend this show to anyone if they are wanting to see how proper medicine is practiced on the silver screen.
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